Firefox3/Gecko Feature List

Gecko 1.9 Feature List

This page is intended to collect the set of features that either have gone in to Gecko 1.9 since Gecko 1.8 was branched, features that people are working on, or features that people intend to work on for Gecko 1.9. It will eventually be migrated into the Gecko 1.9 Requirements document.

Please use this template when adding entries to this list:

Feature name	P?	owner(s)
Status notes: completed, development in progress, spec finished (but no implementation started yet), spec in progress, not started.

GFX/Widget

Cairo Graphics	P?	vlad, stuart
In progress; 90% on windows, 75% on linux, 25% on mac

Cocoa Widgets on Mac	P?	josh
In progress

Fix units in Gecko	P?	Eli Friedman
Blocked on cairo on Mac (?)

View Removal	P?	roc
Unknown

Hoist plugins to toplevel children	P?	roc
Unknown

Widget Removal	P?	roc
Requires plugin hoisting.

nsTextFrame migration to Thebes	P?	blackh/roc
Unknown

Frame Display Lists	P?	roc
Landed. Regressions

Layout

Reflow branch	P?	dbaron
Status

Residual style handling	P?	mrbkap
Unknown

XUL box model	P?	unowned
Unknown

Caret painting rewrite	P?	mrbkap
Landed. Regressions

XUL

XUL2D	P?	vlad?
Unknown; depends on Gran Paradiso front-end requirements

Core/XML

XBL2	P?	sicking
Unknown

JavaScript

JavaScript 2	P?	brendan
Unknown

E4X4DOM	P?	brendan
Unknown

DOM

Language-agnostic DOM	P?	Mark Hammond
Ready to land.

SVG

SVG images	P?	unowned
Unknown

Networking

Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest	P?	darin

Platform

Firefox on XULRunner (and shipping XULRunner platform)	P?	bsmedberg
In Progress

XPCOM restart in-process	P?	bsmedberg
Unknown

Offline Operation	P?	unowned
Unknown

Killing nested event queues	P?	darin
Landed